(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth. (The Conversation) — King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and ...

But Hurston, unlike Herod, dared everything and lost. When Scribner’s rejected the work in 1955, she assured her editor that ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out ...

Per People magazine, “The Life of Herod the Great,” a posthumously published novel by Hurston recovered after her death, will make its debut on the author’s birthday, January 7, 2025.

unspooling a stimulating if rushed revisionist narrative of Herod the Great. It opens with a 25-year-old Herod appointed as governor of Galilee by his father. The young leader quickly rids Galilee ...

She even hoped that director Cecil B. DeMille might be interested in Herod, since he was “handsome, dashing, a great soldier, a great statesman, a great lover,” as she exclaimed to her agent.

According to historical accounts, Herod the Great was the regional king of Judea, which contained the cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. He ruled from about 37 B.C.E. until his death in 4 B.C.E., at a ...

The all-consuming subject? “The life story of HEROD THE GREAT,” she wrote. “You have no idea the great amount of research that I have done on this man.” Hurston believed that history had ...

According to historical accounts, Herod the Great was the regional king of Judea, which contained the cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. He ruled from about 37 B.C.E. until his death in 4 B.C.E ...